Testimony of Shmuel Reichman, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Bedzin, Auschwitz, Blechhammer, Gleiwitz and Flossenburg camps and more

Testimony of Shmuel Reichman, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Bedzin, Auschwitz, Blechhammer, Gleiwitz and Flossenburg camps and more Childhood in Bedzin; displays of antisemitism before the war; German occupation of Bedzin, September 1939; burning of the synagogue; burning of the houses close to the synagogue; life under the German occupation including kidnappings for forced labor; obligation to wear the yellow badge and limitations in movement; secret activity in the Mizrahi organization; activity in an agricultural farm; listening to the radio in secret; deportation of her sister to a labor camp in Sudetenland; deportation to Auschwitz, summer 1942; transfer to Blechhammer camp, March 1943; transfer to Gleiwitz camp after approximately 10 days; camp life including hunger; keeping kosher, marking the Pesach holiday and Yom Kippur; cold, beatings and forced labor; death march to Flossenburg camp, January 1945; life in Flossenburg including labor in a clothing storeroom; evacuation of the camp, April 1945; air-raids; transfer to Neunburg Vorm Wald; collecting the bodies of the dead on a death march; liberation by the US Army, 23 April 1945; Life after the war; illegal aliya to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus, 1947; return aliya to Eretz Israel.